Phases Quotes - Page 14

• Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.

  Laura Esquivel

  Order, Groups, Would Be

  Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

  Robin Wasserman

  Tired, Hug, Arms

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.97, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Leaving, Humanity

  1936 The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

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• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Past, Faces, Would Be

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

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• We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of. Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican.

  Tina Fey

  People, Giving, Weight

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Doe, World

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• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sadness, Triumph, Letters

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Future, Past, Views

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.9, New World Library

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• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  Harold Bloom

  Sympathy, Criticism, Goes On

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• The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Children, Hate, Feet

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.62, Penguin

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Relationship, Letting Go, Running

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• We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Government, Effort, Gold

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• Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? Then in the last phase of this transition people begin to realize, hey, I thought of it already - this is something that everyone can enjoy.

  Michio Kaku

  People, Transition, Hey

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

  Karl Rahner

  Childhood, Firsts, States

  Karl Rahner (1977). “Theological Investigations”

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• She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

  John Irving

  Children, Expectations, Attention

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

  Robert Winston

  Usual, Three, Matter

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• I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Work, Passion, Careers

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• Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Stupid, Grows

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Morning, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.76, Vintage

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• They’re ogling you, dude. Talking about your assets and the fact that you’re nauseatingly ripped, which I would have been had I not bit the dust at seventeen. I’m forever trapped in my tall, gangly phase. (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dust, Talking, Forever

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.124, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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